28 percent of young men and 17 percent of young women said they had had a homosexual experience but only 10 percent said they were primarily homosexual( Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). There are no biological or psychological factors that determine why some people are attracted to the same sex. Freud’s theory says that one can have homosexual development in males due to a family unit in which the adolescent has a strong relationship with his mother and a conflicted and hostile relationship with his father( Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Basically what this means is that Freud thinks that for a male to be gay (homosexual) that he most likely will have a broken relationship with his father and a very close relationship with his mother. Men who have older brothers are more likely to be homosexual due to the mother’s immune system. Some biologists believe that a mother’s immune system could be defensive to male fetuses. After every son born the chance of the next son being homosexual increases. Researchers think that after every male fetus the mother’s antibodies become stronger and keep the fetus’s brain from developing in normal male patterns(Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). This effect is called the older-brother or fraternal birth-order effect(Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). This effect only applies to biological brothers, not adopted brothers. There are biological theories that try to link sexuality with markers on the x chromosome and that maternal hormones can affect sexual orientation when a fetus is in utero (Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Another theory is that the brain of a heterosexual individual is different than the brain of a homosexual individual (Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Simon LeVay studied sections of the hypothalamus taken from dead homosexual and heterosexual people. (This test was done blindly, he did not know which person was straight and which was gay due to him wanting to avoid a bias because he himself was a homosexual). (Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). The hypothalamus is a part of the brain that is linked to emotion. After close observation LeVay looked at the patient charts and made the discovery that the cell cluster was larger in heterosexual meant that homosexual
28 percent of young men and 17 percent of young women said they had had a homosexual experience but only 10 percent said they were primarily homosexual( Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). There are no biological or psychological factors that determine why some people are attracted to the same sex. Freud’s theory says that one can have homosexual development in males due to a family unit in which the adolescent has a strong relationship with his mother and a conflicted and hostile relationship with his father( Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Basically what this means is that Freud thinks that for a male to be gay (homosexual) that he most likely will have a broken relationship with his father and a very close relationship with his mother. Men who have older brothers are more likely to be homosexual due to the mother’s immune system. Some biologists believe that a mother’s immune system could be defensive to male fetuses. After every son born the chance of the next son being homosexual increases. Researchers think that after every male fetus the mother’s antibodies become stronger and keep the fetus’s brain from developing in normal male patterns(Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). This effect is called the older-brother or fraternal birth-order effect(Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). This effect only applies to biological brothers, not adopted brothers. There are biological theories that try to link sexuality with markers on the x chromosome and that maternal hormones can affect sexual orientation when a fetus is in utero (Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Another theory is that the brain of a heterosexual individual is different than the brain of a homosexual individual (Sexual Orientation: Theories about Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sexuality David S. Reitman, MD, MBA). Simon LeVay studied sections of the hypothalamus taken from dead homosexual and heterosexual people. (This test was done blindly, he did not know which person was straight and which was gay due to him wanting to avoid a bias because he himself was a homosexual). (Exploring Psychology Ninth Edition David G. Myers). The hypothalamus is a part of the brain that is linked to emotion. After close observation LeVay looked at the patient charts and made the discovery that the cell cluster was larger in heterosexual meant that homosexual